Alcatel launches $150 OneTouch Pop Star for Walmart

Alcatel continues to create a US niche for itself as a purveyor of budget Android phones, most recently with the OneTouch Pop Star LTE and OneTouch Pop Mega LTE . Both sell exclusively through Walmart's prepaid TracFone service and run on AT&T's LTE network.

The Pop Star is just as significant for its price -- $150 off-contract -- as it is for the fact that it supports LTE, a rarity for the cost.

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Predictably, the Pop Star is all about entry-level specs, namely Android 4.3 Jelly Bean on a 4-inch WVGA (800x480 pixels). There's a 5-megapixel camera in the back and a 0.3 VGA front-facing camera for selfies. You will get a 1.2GHz quad-core processor, similar to what's inside T-Mobile's Alcatel OneTouch Fierce 2 and other low-price models.

While memory is on the low side, just 4GB ROM and 1GB RAM, you can (and should) add up to 32GB more through an aftermarket microSD card.